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Wow, never heard of this. My experience has been the exact opposite. Even though I've built tons of Ikea furniture I've always considered it disposable. Most of
by greggman 9y ago
Wow, never heard of this. My experience has been the exact opposite. Even though I've built tons of Ikea furniture I've always considered it disposable. Most of it is not made to last a single move. Some of them might survive if you disassemble them before hand. I've been proud to have built it but that pride never translated to any attachment.
- gonvaled 9y agoThey are disposable because of the low price, but they are sturdy. I own several Ikea furniture for nearly two decades, and they have done just fine even after being abused. Most pieces survive moving, with or without dissassembly. I do not remember losing any piece if not for getting tired of it, and giving it away or selling it. Bigger pieces like big cupboards can be more fragile, but nearly any other brand would also be fragile - except maybe massive wood pieces, very heavy and not able to be dissassembled, and very expensive by comparisson.
- lloeki 9y agoSome very cheap ones in the lowest price brackets would definitely have a hard time surviving moving (hell a sofa I had barely survived being used), but climb up the price ladder and there's very sturdy stuff to be had. Also, over here at least, when you move up the price range you notice that other furniture increasingly becomes competitive and that IKEA == cheap doesn't come up as automatically true.
- jclardy 9y agoI agree, I think there is a level where this is true, and it is at the absolute bottom (like $15 nightstand level), but if you move slightly up from those "lines" the build is a bit better. No, you aren't going to hand them down to your kids, but I have some fairly cheap ikea furniture in my bedroom that survived two moving trucks just fine. And one thing about them...they are generally much lighter than solid wood "real" furniture - so the actual process of moving them is easier and generally less prone to damage in the first place.
- lloeki 9y ago> at the absolute bottom It was the lowest priced sofa at the time (~100€), and my elbow went right through the armrest on the third day. It felt like it was made of cardboard. Helpful as a temporary consumable, and probably extremely recyclable. > And one thing about them...they are generally much lighter than solid wood "real" furniture - so the actual process of moving them is easier and generally less prone to damage in the first place. Both weight and (dis)assembly are a great thing indeed: I mostly have IKEA furniture, mainly because the staircase leading to my apartment is crazy steep and tight!
- jotm 9y ago> It felt like it was made of cardboard. Helpful as a temporary consumable, and probably extremely recyclable. It might've been, some of their desks are made like this: http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/images/gb-img-fy15/ikea-board-on-frame__1364308975181-s21.jpg http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/images/gb-img-fy15/ikea-board-on-f...
- Gravityloss 9y agoCheck out Lundia bookshelf system. Totally assemblable and customizable by yourself. Wood frame, steel stringers. Very light. Selection of components is large. You can have different widths, heights, colors. Doors, clothes drawers etc. Practically eternal functionally.
- 2muchcoffeeman 9y agoThe customisable system looks a lot like the IKEA Ivar system.
- Gravityloss 9y agoYeah, Ivar is a bad copy of the Lundia system.
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoIKEA seems to cover a range from "shitty and disposable" to "surprisingly sturdy," and opinions of the brand understandably vary depending on which end you've mostly encountered.
- tonyedgecombe 9y agoYes, if you buy a side table for $8 then perhaps you shouldn't expect too much from it.
- dahauns 9y agoIronically, the Lack tables are actually insanely sturdy for their price and weight.
- geezerjay 9y ago>Most of it is not made to last a single move. I don't believe they are supposed to, in spite of the romantic marketing spin around the whole "he saw the legs off the table" shtick. They are, however, designed to be easily transported throughout the whole logistic chain up to the customer's home and to be easily assembled by everyone without specialized tools. However, some pieces of furniture require destructive build steps that aren't supposed to ever be undone, such as driving nails onto cardboard parts or driving wood screws onto particle board components, and the end result isn't exactly ready to be shipped across town in the back of a moving truck.
- kazinator 9y agoI have a few pieces of circal 1984 IKEA furniture that underwent numerous moves, including a several thousand mile trip in a U-Haul trailer in 1986.